Menchik’s “STAT” Op-Ed Tops the Publications Most Read of 2022
“Confessions of a ‘human guinea pig’: Why I’m resigning from Moderna vaccine trials,” an op-ed by Jeremy Menchik, Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was the most read op-ed published by STAT in 2022.
Of the nearly 500 First Opinion essays published by STAT in 2022, written by more than 700 authors from the biopharmaceutical industry, health care, academia, government, and private life in the United States and beyond, Menchik’s recollection of taking part in the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial was the site’s most viewed. In his piece, Menchik discusses his desire to advance the vaccine’s development and dissemination. However, he states that his excitement over the vaccine’s success has diminished as “the noble enterprise of science-making I had imagined I was a part of is actually, first and foremost, an exercise in ruthless corporate profit-making.” Menchik lamented Moderna’s decision not to share its mRNA technology so global production could be scaled up quickly and criticized the company for choosing profit over the collective good of the world.
The list of STAT‘s top opinion articles of 2022 can be read on the publication’s website. Further details on Menchik’s op-ed can be read on the Pardee School website.
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